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When we register with a parish, we are saying that it is our wish to travel down this road of life and faith with that particular community of people by us becoming active in its mission and vision and supporting it. In fact, the word parish...

Before working at St Teresa’s, I worked as a Theology teacher at a Catholic High School in Upstate New York. Our school would draw a variety of different students, with equally as diverse backgrounds. As a Theology teacher, this meant that the...

Recently we celebrated the feast of the Holy Family when the lectionary readings included two different portraits of children growing into their role as prophets. It’s in those sacred words where we hear the Scriptures underline how important...

The September/October edition of the Harvard Business Review contains an article entitled Too Many Projects. In it, authors Rose Hollister and Michael D Watkins organize the reader to consider ways on how to deal with initiative overload. At...

What does it mean to be pro-life? It seems to me that it means letting the Author of Life set our agenda. It means being careful of political, ideological agendas of the left and of the right that offset the balance that we find in generations of...

In a society where the media abound and have a significant influence in life, in a world where many official dialogues are officially established, in a culture where the word “share” is used very frequently, where the terms...

It is offered at weddings and funerals, and sometimes even with baptisms and anointings. At St Teresa’s and in most places, it is available every day. But on Sunday, it is an obligation to attend. I am speaking of what we Catholics call “Mass,”...

Many have heard that the Chinese use the same word to describe the concepts of crisis and opportunity. What they mean to say is that in every crisis lies an opportunity, depending on how it is looked at. The word crisis comes from the Greek...

August 26th, 2018 XXI Sunday of Ordinary Time, Cycle B. Homily The first reading of this Sunday is taken from chapter 24th of the book of Joshua. It is a solemn moment that we see because the people of God after wandering many years in the...

In our parish bulletin, we have been running a column entitled, What Are You Reading? It has been an interesting and inspiring way not only to learn about parishioners’ likes, but also for parishioners to get to know a bit more about one another...

I was reading an article recently by Julian Baggini titled “Hume the humane.” The subtitle of his article reads “Hume believed we were nothing more or less than human: that’s why he’s the amiable, modest, generous philosopher we need now.” In the...

Dear Parishioners of St Teresa of Avila Church – I realize these days have been unusually burdensome, first with the revelations of our former Newark Archbishop McCarrick and then with the release of the Pennsylvania Grand Jury report...